Radio: Our Gracie

The lusty, loudmouthed darling of Britain's music halls, 49-year-old
Gracie Fields, was a near casualty of the war. When Gracie and her
Italian husband, Monty Banks (Mario Bianco), quit England one jump
ahead of the Luftwaffe in 1940, the British press and public hooted
bitterly. It was only to save Monty, an enemy alien, from pokey, Gracie
explained from the U.S.

It took five years of energetic fence-mending, in every corner of the
world where British troops were stationed, and two years of peace, for
the public to forgive & forget. Last week, in a rollicking, fullblown
show for BBC, "Our Gracie"...